Bellcom is expanding its contact centre training programme due to demand for places.

Over the next year, the company will offer an extra 500 places on its courses.

Varry McMenemy, managing director of Bellcom, said: "The course has been developed by contact centre specialists and is delivered by industry professionals within Bellcom's live contact centre operation - so our students are experiencing what it's really like to work in this field from day one and as a result they leave well prepared.

"Glasgow has always been a real hub for contact centre activity, but many still think of a contact centre job as a stop gap.

"This is no longer the case though, and jobs in our industry can offer people a terrific career.

"Every week more contact centre jobs appear in the Glasgow area and there is a real need for trained and enthusiastic people to fill them."